Nintendo Survey Asks Players What Kind Of Game They Want Pikmin 4 To Be

Question : What are you hoping to see from Pikmin 4 when it arrives on Switch?

Me : Beginner Mode so I will understand how exactly playing Pikmin games since I have no idea about the gameplay.

Hard to say really on what I want Pikmin 4 to be. I'd say expand on what Pikmin 2 did with a little of what Pikmin 3 has.

Just one thing though...NO DAY LIMITS. That's why I skipped on Pikmin 3. It's also why I hold Pikmin 2 in such high regard on a pedestal.

I wonder if this is more for marketing, because the game is coming out in just a couple months. I personally liked the challenging strategy of Pikmin 1 with the time limit. Needing to make every day count and complete objectives. Of course having difficulty options in your game is the best choice for all.

@DanijoEX The trailer seem to indicate the you can keeping playing when night comes but the enemies become more aggressive

Seems a little late to be asking these questions. Unless they’re planning on throwing together some last-minute trailers, I don’t see the value in a survey so close to release.

Well gamers like to wax on about speculation so this likely taps into that.

I cant wait to build vehicles in Pikmin 4 too…………….. 🙄

I know people like Pikmin for different reasons so I suppose the survey makes sense.. personally I just want the game or a Pikmin game to just be a chill fest and to feel rewarding to keep coming back and exploring.. really curious to see how the graphics can improve moving forwards say for Pikmin 5 on Nintendo’s next console

This is the equivalent of saying "I made you dinner. What did you want to eat ?"

Include like a in depth yaoi mini game based on insofe the onions where you dress up the pikmin and have them date each other before going out into battle. More stakes, more feelings

First-person shooter, please.

I want it to be a survival horror game.

Doesn’t matter how they market this game, I love the Pikmin series and will be buying this one for sure!!!

alrighty. Kind of seems like a restaurant serving my steak and then asking how I wanted it cooked.

@Anti-Matter if it’s anything like 3 it’ll hold your hand at the beginning of Story Mode. In 3 the story mode is channeling but certainly not hard. You can do a higher difficulty mode. Also there are challenges that require you to basically master the game’s mechanisms and you’ll only beat them after multiple runs.

More Pikopedia, also Louie's cookbook of cooking these monsters.

Seems like the game is already too far in development to change anything substantial.
That said, I hope the game sells for less than 50€ or I’m not touching it.

I think a demo would help the game a lot. I rented Pikmin 1 on the Gamecube and got Pikmin 3 free on the Wii U, but I didn't actually get into the series until I rented the Switch version with a Gamefly demo. It's a lot of fun but it's not an instant fall in love thing and previews don't do the series a lot of favors.

Have they secretly not started the game yet and are panicking?

This is a tall order for Nintendo, but maybe make the co-op so you don't get in each other's way.

Pikmin is my favorite Nintendo series. Make the campaign as good at 1-3 and I'll be happy.

The one new thing I really want is to have online multiplayer (BINGO BATTLE!) with random matchmaking (not just friends) . The multiplayer of 3 was fantastic but restricted to local, which is such a shame.

I would like to see more treasure items you find and return for cash like pikmin two had. You’d be picking up a can of dole pineapple, a Duracell battery, or some turtlewax. I just remember the funny little descriptions they’d have for these items and what the aliens thought they were for,

I’d just love for the time limit to go away. I’d prefer not to be rushed through those utterly gorgeous levels.

Have the day/night cycle, just don't let night mean automatic death - just make nighttime hard as nails but with better rewards

I just hope it has solid coop like Pikmin 3. Being able to play the main story together was a main seeking point to buy it a second time on Switch.

A bit late to ask this now, isn’t it?

Just keep the direction you went with Pikmin 3 please.

Can I get a single-player Bingo Battle against the computer?

Isn't this a question to ask... 4 years ago?! The game has already gone Gold based on the 12 week rule the cartridge format dictates.

I really liked the idea of the first game, with each level being like a puzzle challenge. The second game dragged on too much with the underground levels. Pikmin 3 is nice, but a bit samey all the way until the last level, which was really nicely executed. But this time, I hope for something quite new.

A game that is released and available to buy!

Seriously, wasn't this finished ages ago?

The only thing I don't want is a time limit. The rest is fine.
The new dog creature looks cool.

It's actually a clever question. Pikmin can be any and all of those options, so I guess they want to know what to emphasise in the trailers.

For me, the ideal Pikmin would be where you only control one spaceman (let's say Olimar), so you don't have to keep switching between characters. Lots of Pikmin varieties are good, but there should only be one playable character. I also enjoy strategy more than action, and it should be easier to get through the whole game without losing any Pikmin. A time limit could work (like Majora's Mask), but the way they've done it so far I've found it took away more than it added.

The only one I really enjoyed was Pikmin 2 (although not perfect) and part of me wonders whether this was really just a franchise for GameCube and NIntendo's resources would be better off elsewhere. The survey is a great idea though and I hope they do it for other franchises.

Football management sim

If it's not a fighting game then I don't want it.

@Anti-Matter Your should try the free demo of Pikmin 3 (which I think is still available). I had never played a Pikmin game (nor any other realtime strategy game) before Pikmin 3 came out. The demo was great at easing you into the game and I enjoyed it so much I immediately bought the full game and played it until it was 100% complete.

Looks like a lot of people aren't even reading the article with their "bit late to ask this" comments. The article does say that it's probably Nintendo gauging how it can approach the game's advertising to appeal to as many people in order to "actually sell" it.

Pikmin 4 has caves like pikmin 2 and treasures are back with pokos. Thats exactly what I wanted. Pikmin 1 and 3 are great games but Pikmin 2 is such a damn meaty game and its still my favorite pikmin. I hope Pikmin 4 can be the new pikmin 2

I was more hyped than I had ever been for anything in my life when this game was first announced. Right now though, I'm cautiously optimisitc. The only things that are making me nervous about this game are the dog, which seems almost out of place, and the captains, who I'm hoping are at least better/more likeable than the protagonists of 3. If you ask me though, nothing will ever beat the OG trio of Olimar, Louie and The President.

I will say, the fact that they're bringing back so many elements from Pikmin 2 (caves, returning creatures, treasures etc.) makes me absolutely ecstatic! Pikmin 2 is by far my favourite game in the series, and Pikmin 4 looks to be a direct continuation of 2's style of gameplay. And nighttime exploration is something I 100% predicted, so here's hoping that's stressful and terrifying fun and challenging!

Overall, this is looking like almost everything I've dreamed of in a Pikmin sequel. This is perhaps the only game this year that I'm excited for, so I hope and pray that it doesn't disappoint in that regard.

I've got a voucher waiting for this one! Looks like a perfect sequel so far.

I love Pikmin....but I get too upset when they die! I don't want any to get eaten or left behind

@somnambulance Same! I absolutely loved all Pikmin, especially 3. Can't wait! They're just super fun to play.

I mean the gameplay trailer offered close to I wanted. I thought hmm water (as in like Blue Pikmin have more they can do or you have Red/Yellow/others that can do underwater things as not be limited to the surface), ice, boats, bridges or something and they were pretty close to what I was thinking.

I think I'd go Strategy, exploration, balanced gameplay, varied gameplay, balanced atmosphere, balanced creatures depending on regions in the game.

I completely forgot about night time. Hmm yeah that will challenge me for sure. I never played 3 Deluxe only the Wii U version and I got to the Wiimote controls late. So I hope 4's Joycon and cursor controls are good as to me they always seemed lesser than the Wiimote controls once I finally got around to them.

Having a Wii stored away to then pulling out with the Wiimotes or buying a third party one it was interesting comparing Gamepad/GameCube controller stick like controls and the Wiimote and the options in 3 Deluxe and 4 I think will surprise me for the first time when getting 4.

I can't compare the refinements (hoping) between 3 Deluxe and 4 but I'm hopeful. I just hate the IR is on the bottom of the right Joycon they could have put it on the front and of both Joycons but nope.

Or allowed for like the DS had book angle games they could do the same with IR on both for multiplayer with multiple Joycon cursors of different colours just like Wiimote hand cursors. Oh well. Hopefully Switch 2 fixes that or doesn't remove the IR because they messed it up and went hmm no one really used it besides a small handful of games hmm.

Getting fruit in 3 really did test me though so who knows what they do here with the new elements and returning/refining old ones.

I didn't think much for caves as 2 already did caves and 3 had it's inside cave areas but not the same as 2's caves so I was thinking more on a different path for things to focus on.

I'm happy with what 4 offers. I just wanted more exploration/interactivity mechanics to make things easier. Gameplay features to add more to the game, challenge players more or offer quality of life as using 3 characters in 3 was good to get things done, throw them and so on.

But it was still a bit tedious going around so I hope 4 offers enough to get to places than going around the long way to option shortcuts all the time but who knows where water and other elements are.

I have only played 3 and may 1&2 eventually but still 4 offered close to what I wanted.

@DanijoEX

Oh man, I'm the opposite. Pikmin 2 is the black sheep of the series because I'm not a fan of the bland cave levels and the day cycle is what Pikmin is all about. It was nice though, that Pikmin 3 wasn't as strict as the first game was. You were given a significant number of extra days if you wanted to use some to simply mess around and enjoy yourself.